Books by Alexa Koenig
OHCHR and HRC Berkeley, 2020
Extreme Punishment examines the erosion of the legal boundaries that traditionally divide civil d... more Extreme Punishment examines the erosion of the legal boundaries that traditionally divide civil detention from criminal punishment. This collection of empirical studies illustrates how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated as criminals in three of the world's oldest and wealthiest democracies: Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each chapter relies on unprecedented access to the administrative black holes that increasingly characterize punishment. Together, the contributors explore how punishers exert power and how the punished experience that power. The book demonstrates that, through consolidated administrative power, new laws nominally focused on managing risk and preventing harm produce new criminal categories and newly criminalized people.
Book Chapters by Alexa Koenig
Morten Bergsmo and Carsten Stahn (editors) Quality Control in Preliminary Examination, 2018
In this digital age, methodologies for discovering, verifying and analysing information from open... more In this digital age, methodologies for discovering, verifying and analysing information from open sources have changed rapidly, including in the context of journalism, policing, and government intelligence. Investigative journalists are experimenting with more efficient ways of using social media and embracing new technologies to monitor global events. Human rights organizations like WITNESS are training activists in how to document atrocities with an eye to maximizing court admissibility and the weight of any videos they produce. Reflecting these recent developments, the question at the heart of this chapter is: “how can evolving practices around the use of online open source information be harnessed to improve the quality of preliminary examinations at the ICC?”. This issue, which resides at the intersection of international criminal justice, human rights, and law and technology scholarship, has yet to be adequately addressed in legal and academic analysis. Finding an answer, we argue, is particularly important in the context of our rapidly expanding digital information ecosystem, in which information sources and transmission practices are continuously evolving.
Conference Calls by Alexa Koenig
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), 2020
The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the wo... more The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors -including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations. It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that reflections and collaborations on the practice of teaching international law remain relatively rare.
Papers by Alexa Koenig
Brill | Nijhoff eBooks, Oct 25, 2023
International review of the Red Cross, Jun 1, 2011
UNE COUR POUR LES VICTIMES? Une etude de 622 victimes participantes a la Cour penale internationa... more UNE COUR POUR LES VICTIMES? Une etude de 622 victimes participantes a la Cour penale internationale OUGANDA • REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO • KENYA • COTE D’IVOIRE
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2017
This chapter demonstrates how the US government selectively manipulated the medical and health li... more This chapter demonstrates how the US government selectively manipulated the medical and health literatures after the attacks of September 11, 2001 to justify the torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of detainees held in US custody. The authors analyze the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel’s “Torture Memos” to illustrate the ways in which governments can attempt to circumvent the protections offered by existing definitions of torture, even while claiming to operate within legal limits. The authors offer a stark warning about the ways in which research findings can be perverted—and contradicting studies ignored—to justify governments’ policy aims when those aims conflict with legal constraints.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2017
This chapter offers insights gleaned from 78 interviews with former Guantánamo detainees to illus... more This chapter offers insights gleaned from 78 interviews with former Guantánamo detainees to illustrate the ways in which the learning theory of torture is helpful for better integrating victims’ experiences into legal definitions. Shaped around former detainees’ reports about their worst detention-related experiences, this chapter illustrates how a lack of control, and a sense of both hopelessness and helplessness, exacerbated their overall distress. From a normative perspective, this chapter suggests that the Convention Against Torture’s current definition of torture fails to adequately reflect the experiences of victims, and that incorporating a learning theory of torture into legal analyses holds tremendous promise for better aligning legal prohibitions with antitorture policies and empirical realities.
Social Science Research Network, 2009
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University of Chicago Press eBooks, 2018
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Apr 23, 2022
University of San Francisco law review, 2002
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 31, 2020
Author(s): Koenig, Kimberly Alexa | Advisor(s): Morrill, Calvin | Abstract: This dissertation foc... more Author(s): Koenig, Kimberly Alexa | Advisor(s): Morrill, Calvin | Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the experiences of former Guantanamo detainees as communicated in 78 interviews. An analysis of those interviews centers on former detainees' worst experiences to parse how those experiences might inform society's understanding of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The dissertation is organized into nine chapters.Chapter one situates this study in the context of the United States' response to the events of 9/11, with an emphasis on the imprisonment of individuals at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This chapter summarizes the major philosophical, legal and social science research relevant to detainees' experiences--including analyses of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment--and explains how this dissertation contributes to existing empirical work. In this chapter, I argue that Guantanamo is an example of the United States' use of incar...
Hiding in Plain Sight, 2019
Journal of International Criminal Justice
The past decade has witnessed a profound shift in the documentation of war crimes and other serio... more The past decade has witnessed a profound shift in the documentation of war crimes and other serious international crimes. Whereas evidence collection has traditionally been conducted by legally mandated investigators, and focused on interviewing witnesses as well as gathering and preserving physical and documentary evidence, conventional forms of fact-gathering are now being supplemented by abundant digital documentation gathered by a dispersed network of individuals and organizations that represent a broad array of disciplines. This shift has been facilitated by two important developments: first, a transition in modes of information sharing from analogue to digital sources, including from older generation technologies like the telephone and fax to online platforms like TikTok and Telegram. Secondly, an increased understanding that digital documentation requires both a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to data collection, storage, processing, analysis and presentation. In...
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